We understand that the US is on record stating that the newest war in the Mideast is a “defensive war”. It isn’t. The newest war was launched as an offensive operation. It can be, should be, described as a continuation of the ‘Bush Doctrine’, of a pre-emptive war as memorialized in ‘shock and awe’ war […]
Category: 2026
One Word, One Comment
What is the One Word … ‘Orwell’. It’s Orwell as in ‘Orwellian’. What is the One Comment … It’s ‘War is Peace’. And so it goes … The year is 2026 … the State Department speaks
April 7, 2026, Warning of War Crimes
The president of the United States uses the Christian occasion of Easter morning to send out a message warning the world of his intent, as Commander in Chief of the United States, to destroy the Iranian civilization
Escalation
A Day in a War (Provocation and Escalation)
Another War
Another war, more spending for war, conventional… and nuclear. The US is top of the world in war spending and the US president now wants 50% more for the War Department. Truth is, we have a need to know the deeper costs of war ….
The Nuclear Clock’ & Sands of Time
Grains of Sands & A Nuclear Clock The Nuclear Clock of the Atomic Scientists is now another four seconds closer to midnight. The clock is now the closest to midnight since its introduction in 1947. “The Doomsday Clock’s message cannot be clearer,” Alexandra Bell, president and CEO, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, said. […]
Trump says he needs another $500 (or $600) billion
On the Donald J Trump ‘Truth Social’ site, this past week the US President announced he would be calling for a vastly expanded military budget. He explained that he wants to build a ‘Dream Military’ … Here at Strategic Demands we say ‘no’ to billions and billions more for new conflicts, wasteful spending, and misdirected […]
Jack Smith, a Simple Name
Jack is a prosecutor, a federal prosecutor at the center of the US Department of Justice case against US President Donald J. Trump. Now, nearly a year after the 47th US president took office and a New Year commences, Jack Smith’s deposition is released…
National Security Strategy of the United States (2025) – Responses
How does the world begin to respond to the 2025 National Security Strategy of the United States? How do we gauge the resulting shocks and disconcerting reversals of US defense of human rights and democracy?
A Moment for a Quote, Science360 & Geopolitics
“It’s clear that the United States is falling apart; its president is destroying everything that made America great.” — Reinhard Genzel
